The UK currently has more than 10 million broadband users, but rather than prices going down as it becomes an essential part of daily life- internet use is set to become more costly according to BBC News.
''The explosion in popularity of online video could lead to increases in the cost of broadband for UK consumers.''
The thinking is that use of high bandwidth sites like YouTube, online video services like Joost, and on-demand television services like Channel 4's 4oD and the BBC iPlayer will congest the network. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, 24 August 2007. Film
The final part of the Bourne trilogy, not only lives up to its predecessors but strides way out ahead of any other action films you are likely to see for quite a while. The Bourne Ultimatum takes place right after the end of the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy, in fact you could run the two films together in a five hour long globe-trotting chase movie, although your head would probably explode if with sheer excitement if you did.
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Friday, 17 August 2007. Television
Back in January 2004, comedy writer Andy Hamilton, (co-creator of Drop the Dead Donkey), wrote in the Independent that he would never write for BBC 1 again, "because the channel has become obsessed by short-term ratings and is governed by focus groups". Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, 10 August 2007. Television
CJD. AIDS. Global warming. For the first time in history, mankind has the ability to destroy itself. So now vampires need to take control of their food source. Against this enemy, religion is no defense but folklore has some truth. Not wooden stakes but carbon bullets. Not garlic but the chemical allicin. Not simply daylight. Ultraviolet...
This is no Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Ultraviolet was recommended to me be a friend, and I duly tracked down all the episodes on YouTube. I love Ultraviolet, which is basically a cop drama, only about vampires, so like normal cop dramas, it tries to stick as close to reality as it can. Ultraviolet a government-funded paramilitary organization with connections to the Roman Catholic Church fighting a secret war against a worldwide vampire conspiracy. Read the rest of this entry »